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Here's the latest from DISASTER RESEARCH  July 24, 1992

                DISASTER RESEARCH 95
                 TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1)  A Request for Information on emergency Sheltering
2)  A Request for Help from Down Under
3)  Decade Doings
4)  A Message about UNIENET
5)  A Project to Manage Disasters in Cities
6)  School for Agricultural Drought Management in India
7)  Help Wanted: Floodplain Manager Sought
8)  EERI Sponsors Student Paper Competition
9)  So What Happened at UNCED?

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        A Request for Information on Emergency Sheltering

[From Don Zeigler, [e-mail] - The Hazards Center has sent some
information, but if anyone out there in DR land knows of *the* perfect
article/resource, please let Don know.]

I now have a student investigating emergency shelters in the local area--
Hampton Roads. Do you know of any articles on emergency shelters, their
management, and correlates of their success/failure? . . . Please don't go to
any trouble, but if anything comes to mind please let me know.

Thank you.
Don Zeigler    [e-mail]

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                A Request for Help from Down Under

[Received the following from Rob Fleming, the librarian at the Australian
Counter Disaster College - [e-mail]]

Late last year due to a programming error on our part we lost all the updates
to our mailing list for our journal "The Macedon Digest" from October to
January 92. I believe some of these new entries were from overseas and as we
did not keep the hard copy records we were unable to retrieve any of these new
additions to the mailing list. I wonder if [we could include the following] in
Disaster Research . . . :

[Always glad to help out - ed.]

The Macedon Digest is the official Australian Journal of disaster management
published by the Australian Counter Disaster College, Mt Macedon, Victoria
3441, Australia. Funding for the publication is provided by the Natural
Disasters Organisation. At present the Macedon Digest has a circulation in
excess of 2,555 and is distributed without charge throughout Australia. It is
also sent to interested people and organisations throughout the world.

The Macedon Digest endeavours to provide an information sharing forum for all
those involved in disaster management. Contributions relating to Australian
and international disaster management activities, articles identifying and
discussing issues, policies, planning or procedural concerns, research
reports, and any other information relevant to the counter disaster community
is welcome.

If you wish to be placed on our mailing list or have articles for publication
contact Rob Fleming, Editor, The Macedon Digest, Australian Counter Disaster
College, Mt Macedon, Victoria, 3441. Australia; fax: [phone].

[Rob can also be reach by e-mail at [e-mail], or
[e-mail]]

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                        Decade Doings

On July 8 a long-awaited report was issued by Allan Bromley, the President's
science advisor, and Marilyn Quayle, a member of the U.N. Secretary General's
Special High Level Council for the International Decade for Natural Disaster
Reduction (IDNDR). "Reducing the Impacts of Natural Hazards: A Strategy for
the Nation" outlines the U.S. federal effort to join in the IDNDR and the
struggle to reduce the devastating effects of disasters - both domestically
and worldwide. The report describes a coordinated approach among twelve
federal agencies that have conducted various research, response, and recovery
programs to address natural hazards in the past. Copies of the report can be
obtained by writing the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering,
and Technology, Committee on Earth and Environmental Science, c/o National
Science Foundation, attn: Forms and Publications, 1800 G Street, N.W., Room
232, Washington, DC 20550, or call [phone].

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                        A Message about UNIENET

             [Received the following from UNDRO-Geneva:]

UNIENET: TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY
NETWORK (UNIENET) BY EMAIL, PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH DROCEDP2@UNICC.

[Note: The UNIENET folks also provided the Hazards Center with an extensive
electronic document on the UNIENET system. If you have trouble reaching Geneva
and would like to see a "System Description" for UNIENET, send a message to
[e-mail], and we will send you the documentation. Here is the
abbreviated opening paragraph (there is *much* more on both how to use UNIENET
and what it contains):]

UNIENET is a disaster-specific electronic information network providing the
international disaster management community with access to disaster-related
information . . . Connection to UNIENET can be made either from a computer
terminal linked to the International Computing Centre (ICC) in Geneva,
Switzerland, or from any microcomputer equipped with a modem and
communications software. Access to UNIENET can be provided to any organization
or individual involved with disaster management. Computer access and
telecommunications costs for this service are at the user's expense.

 The facilities of the system include:
 1.  Electronic Mail for communicating among disaster-management
     organizations
 2.  Bulletin Boards of current disaster emergency situations,
     international disaster management conferences, meetings, and
     events, training materials, etc.
 3.  Sitreps (Situation Reports)
 4.  Disaster Emergency Contacts
 5.  Databases containing Press Releases, descriptions of NGO's
     dealing with disasters, bibliographies, etc., and the Training
     Centres Forthcoming Activities.
 6.  Access to other United Nations Networks
 7.  Network Users

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            A Project to Manage Disasters in Cities

     [Adapted from the IDNDR Newsletter - "Stop Disasters"]

The World Bank, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), and
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have joined in an 18-month
effort entitled "Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in Metropolitan Areas,"
aimed specifically at developing countries. The main strategies for the
project are to 1) prepare methodologies to help national and local
organizations assess the risk of different metropolitan areas: 2) develop
policy recommendations for disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness
in selected metropolitan areas; 3) help identify and prepare disaster
mitigation projects for potential future financing by the World Bank, regional
banks, and other resources; 4) devise mechanisms for carrying out policy
strategies, applying existing knowledge, taking into account the social,
cultural, and economic diversity among developing nations; and 5) prepare
training materials for dissemination and application of policies on natural
disaster mitigation in metropolitan areas. The project will study and analyze
specific cases of metropolitan areas subject to high risk. The cases will
cover 1) different types of hazards that can be potentially exacerbated by
climatic changes, 2) different regional characteristics, and 3) potential for
full examination of the effects of disasters on development activities and of
the dynamic effects of development activity on disaster vulnerability. For
more information contact Alcira Kreimer, Task Manager, Environment Department,
World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433, [phone]; fax:
[phone] - or - Ignacio Armillas, Task Manager, UNCHS/Habitat, P.O. Box
30030, Nairobi, Kenya; tel: [phone]; fax: [phone].

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            School for Agricultural Drought Management in India

                   [Taken from "Drought Network News"]

The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, will conduct
the first Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) School on
Agrometeorology at the Department of Physics and Agrometeorology, Indira
Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India. The national-level school for
scientists 25-32 years old who deal with drought management, appraisal, and
relief planning is tentatively scheduled for November 1992. Its theme will be
"Concepts and Techniques for Appraisal and Management of Agricultural
Droughts." Further details may be obtained from Dr. A.S.R.A.S. Sastri, Course
Director, Department of Physics and Agrometeorology, Indira Gandhi
Agricultural University, Raipur 492 012, India.

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                  Help Wanted: Floodplain Manager Sought

The Amite River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District in southeast
Louisiana is seeking a full-time executive director with experience in
floodplain management and/or water resources. This individual will be
responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing a regional flood control
program including structural and nonstructural projects. She or he will
coordinate efforts within a six-parish area, including NFIP and CRS
activities, as well as manage state and federal governmental relations.
Resumes will be accepted through August 10 and should be mailed to the Amite
River Basin Drainage and Water Conservation District, attn: Executive Search
Committee, P.O. Box 1685, Denham Springs, LA 70727-1685.

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                  EERI Sponsors Student Paper Competition

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has announced its annual
student paper competition to promote active involvement of students in
earthquake engineering and the earthquake hazards research community. Up to
four student authors will be invited to the annual meeting of EERI in Seattle,
Washington, February 11-13, 1993, and will receive travel support for this
purpose. The winning papers will also be considered for publication in EERI's
journal, "Spectra." The deadline for submission is October 19. Instructions
for preparation of a manuscript can be obtained from Professor D.A. Foutch,
University of Illinois, 3129 Newmark Lab, 205 North Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801.

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                So What Happened at UNCED?
                  (How you can find out)

[Received the following from [e-mail]"  "Grupo de discussao da
ECO 92"]

For those of you with Internet access here is how you can get copies of
documents, including our Earth Summit Bulletins.
Regards,
Kimo
Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil

/* Written  3:24 pm  Jul  9, 1992 by odabashian in cdp:en.unced.gener */
/* ---------- "UNCED Docs Available On Internet" ---------- */
We have just put four of the most-asked-for documents from UNCED into
an anonymous ftp site so that folks on the Internet can have access
to them. They join Agenda 21 documentation and PrepCom 4 documentation
that came out of the final PrepCom in March, as well as the Earth
Summit Bulletins produced each day at UNCED. Advanced Final copies
of Agenda 21 documentation (that came out of the actual UNCED meeting)
will be available online with EcoNet as well as through anonymous
ftp for people on the Internet within a week or so. This documentation
will be subject to final editing, but it's as close to the final
edition as is currently available.

To access from the Internet:

do an ftp into igc.org
login: anonymous
password: your ID
type: cd pub/UNCED
type: one of the following: get agend.21.2, get precom.r.2
get unced.biodiv, get unced.climate, get unced.forest, get unced.rio.decl,
get ESB.

Please let your friends and colleagues on the Internet know about this
availability..

Elisa Odabashian
EcoNet-UNCED Project Director

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